gau17 wrote:
It's more than a Van.

It's a brotherhood.

Just to answer some of the questions asked:

The Range is at N34 53' 54" W 119 29' 54" on Google Earth / Maps. If you are travelling south on Hwy 33 from Hwy 166 the range entrance road is about 2.6 miles south of that intersection. There is a 2' square white sign there that says "Palma" on the EAST side of the Hwy where the range road is. Travel up the dirt road and it will split at a rock pile, bear right (there's another small "Palma" sign). Continue east and there will be another dirt road leading off to the right about 75-100 yards in front of the closed gate. Take that right and it will lead you to the shade structure at the 800 yard line that you can see from Highway 33.

At the 800 line there is one shooting bench and we can put temporary targets up at 100 yards to check zeroes from it or prone, if necessary.

A buncha dudes riding around in a van calling it the bang bus....unless you guys start tossin out sluts when you get to the range id be hesitant to call it the bang bus brother hood!! No wonder you guys do so well in kneeling positions at the matches.

Lol!!

Fjold wrote:Just to answer some of the questions asked:

The Range is at N34 53' 54" W 119 29' 54" on Google Earth / Maps. If you are travelling south on Hwy 33 from Hwy 166 the range entrance road is about 2.6 miles south of that intersection. There is a 2' square white sign there that says "Palma" on the EAST side of the Hwy where the range road is. Travel up the dirt road and it will split at a rock pile, bear right (there's another small "Palma" sign). Continue east and there will be another dirt road leading off to the right about 75-100 yards in front of the closed gate. Take that right and it will lead you to the shade structure at the 800 yard line that you can see from Highway 33.

At the 800 line there is one shooting bench and we can put temporary targets up at 100 yards to check zeroes from it or prone, if necessary.

Nice work Frank!

FWIW, my GPS says the "Palma" sign on Hwy 33 is located at N34 54.288' W119 30.511'.

Should I bring my 375 H&H magnum for people to try?

I'd bring the 458 Win Mag but I don't have any ammo loaded and I'm too lazy to load any right now.

In to shoot.

Fjold wrote:Should I bring my 375 H&H magnum for people to try?

He'll yeah, I will bring a little extra cash cause I would love to light off a couple rounds.

William wrote:Can I get to this place in my low clearance jalopy sedan vehicle?

Yes, the dirt roads are graded and are no problem for anything except a hard core low rider.

I can drive and carry 4 passengers plus their gear in my Yukon XL
I'm in Huntington Beach and can make one stop in south bay for
passengers before the meeting spot at park n ride. PM or text
Me at 310-990-5457

In to shoot.

Stoopy wrote:In to shoot.


He'll yeah, I will bring a little extra cash cause I would love to light off a couple rounds.

please i would shoot it

Don Vito wrote:I can drive and carry 4 passengers plus their gear in my Yukon XL
I'm in Huntington Beach and can make one stop in south bay for
passengers before the meeting spot at park n ride. PM or text
Me at 310-990-5457

im in costa mesa where in Huntington are you

deepsix++ wrote: im in costa mesa where in Huntington are you

Bolsa Chica and Edinger

Wow, others in the OC.



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I'm already in Bakesfield. 110 degrees at 6:21pm! Gonna be roasting tomorrow!

Sorry for the late notice but I won't be able to make it tomorrow.

I'm in to shoot. Anyone who wants to ride with me on the way out and is up around the Ventura area PM me

Treadstone wrote:I'm already in Bakesfield. 110 degrees at 6:21pm! Gonna be roasting tomorrow!

Actually the weather report says that we have a cooling trend coming in tonight and Cuyama will be 85 degrees with 10 -15 MPH winds tomorrow.

I'll see you guys at the range.

Yeah me too.

I hope every body had a good nights sleep and is ready to go.

405 N closed at Santa Monica.

I got home 45 minutes ago, how's everyone else doing?

I just got in about 25 mins ago. It was good meeting you man

It was great shooting today. Learned a lot about the wind. Thanks everyone

I hope no one got caught by the CHP that was sitting behind the runaway truck ramp at the bottom of Grocer Grade on 33/166.

Made it in two hours. Luckily the burned up toy hauler and resulting brush fire was on the north bound side of the 5.

I enjoyed meeting everyone and I came away impressed with the shooting ability of the CAPRC!

Fjold wrote:I got home 45 minutes ago, how's everyone else doing?

Made it to HB in 2.5 hrs had a blast today. Thanks for having us out today
and if I find some cigars while im in Dominica ill get you some.
And a big Thanks to the CAPRC members for putting this on.

I had a fun time out at the range with everybody today. Big thanks to Frank and all the guys who were nice enough to share their range and donate their time to let us all shoot for the day. Thanks to Randall and Brad for running the show, and getting us fed properly (The asparagus was kick ass). Last but not least, congratulations to all the new shooters getting out there and making great hits all the way out to 1000 yards today. Hell, we even survived a dust devil on the firing line, and kept on shooting! See you all next time.

Fjold wrote:I hope no one got caught by the CHP that was sitting behind the runaway truck ramp at the bottom of Grocer Grade on 33/166.

Oh man I thought he had me.......I was over 70 when I saw him. He missed me though and after that I drove like a turtle. Lucked out......I can't afford another point.

After we said our goodbyes, I got in my car and after all that heat all I wanted was my A/C. I fired up and got going home and reached for the A/C ........ and nothing worked. No fan, no A/C nada......I had to drive with the windows open. Brad had pulled over to do a small repair at the 5 on ramp. I stopped to make sure he was okay, got going and about 3 minutes on the 5, the A/C kicked on. Gdamn I was happy.

Thank you Micheal, Frank and Bud for all you time today. It was very impressive when the wind snapped 2 target frames...

Had fun today and got to goto a birthday party too....

It wasn't a toy hauler. It was a sail boat! That thing was engulfed
When I drove by.

Yeah, thanks to everyone.

Hey how did you guys in the buttes fair in the sandstorm? Man......it seemed to come from directly behind us on the line and it got in everywhere.....blew sand and debris crap all up my pants legs. That was something.

Fumbles wrote:



Yeah, thanks to everyone.

Hey how did you guys in the buttes fair in the sandstorm? Man......it seemed to come from directly behind us on the line and it got in everywhere.....blew sand and debris crap all up my pants legs. That was something.

ya saw this too

hey every one here is a link to the group photo

http://s1366.photobucket.com/user/deeps ... 3.jpg.html" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

let me know if you have problems getting to this picture as i haven never up loaded any photo's

deepsix++ wrote:hey every one here is a link to the group photo

http://s1366.photobucket.com/user/deeps ... 3.jpg.html" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

let me know if you have problems getting to this picture as i haven never up loaded any photo's

The pictures turned out great! The outhouse as background for the group photo was a nice touch.

Fucking Fords

Fjold wrote:
The pictures turned out great! The outhouse as background for the group photo was a nice touch.

it adds character

Oh...it had character alright.......ambience too. Rat's done been poo-ing in there too. LOL!!!

Rat poo and a gigantic black widow in the crapper hole that would come out when piss hit the web...

Fumbles wrote: Hey how did you guys in the buttes fair in the sandstorm? Man......it seemed to come from directly behind us on the line and it got in everywhere.....blew sand and debris crap all up my pants legs. That was something.

We didn't see the sand storm because we were under cover in the butts but that must have been when the wind gusted so badly that it broke the two target frames.

Thanks for the hospitality, the great food, the camaraderie, and the shooting. Was great training, and I have some real numbers to work with for my dope. I definitely need more wind practice, I was late in chasing wind changes most of the time. The ride back was nice, with great scenery through lockwood valley, thanks to Keith for driving. Exciting too, with the fire and all. I don't know if the rest of you saw the big group of rental sports cars, we saw a rolls or bentley (not sure which), bunch of mercs, a ferrari and a lambo, and maybe some others besides.

Thanks to every one who made it happen ,
good group of people was out there ..
I learned a lot , Special Thanks As always To Randall

Anybody else take any photos?

Much thanks to our hosts and everyone who worked hard to make it a great day.
Big lesson learned: Make sure bipod screw is tight.
Amazing feat encountered: The last or 2nd to last person shooting on #5 (not sure if there were one or two shooters in the last round) put 3 consecutive shots within about 3 inches of one another in the 9 ring.

I believe that was me. Too bad they were not in the x ring!

I was coming back from San Luis Obispo on Sunday, would have been nice to pop by but I had my girl with me who just wouldn't understand.. sounds like everyone had a ball!

autoessentials wrote:I believe that was me. Too bad they were not in the x ring!

I thought I was the last to shoot on number 5. Jeff Hall shot before me.

You got me. I changed numbers more than once. I thought that I had ended up at 5 at the end.